The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-08
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA
Rain is needed badly in Alachua county
The new post Office at Tampa will be open
next week
County Judge West, of Leon has almost
lost his eyesight.
| Col Sam j. c. Dunlap has closed the Ma
tional hotel at Barlow.
| new schedule will 30 into effect on
the Florida Southern Railway on Oct. 10.
The plasterers are adding the finishing
touches to the new jackson brick block at
Barlow
r. w. Ashmore, of Wakulla county, will
| open store in the growing little town of
Sopchoppy.
Several new buildings are in course of
construction in the southern and western
portions of Barlow.
Gilmore & Davis, the contractors, have
finished the colored seminary building on
College Hill, Tallahassee.
Uniforms have been ordered for Tampa's
CUSTOM house officers. They will be of blue
flannel, with brass buttons.
At Monticello no dogs, of high or low
degree, will be permitted to roam the streets
unless they are securely muzzled.
B. T. Kuhl, of Orlando, is now in the
North for the purpose of buying the neces-
sary machinery for a candy factory
1t is rumored that Armour g. Co., Chi
Cages great meat packers, are about to
establish one of their plants in Orlando
The colored Normal school at Tallahassee
opened Monday with fifteen students and
prospects for good many more in the near
future.
Circuit Court for Hillsborough county
convenes on Monday, Oct. II. Three CAPT
tai ca@s on docket, besides a number of
minor offenses for trial.
The Barlow Informant is a splendid
chronicler of local events. The MORNING
NEWS invariably finds something in its col
umns worth reproducing.
The Baptist State Board of Missions met
at the church in Gainesville Wednesday.
The movement to erect church edifice at
st. Augustine was Endorsed.
Postmaster Delaney, of Orlando, reports
that there is quite an increase i'll the sale of
stamps and postal notes and the issuance
and receipts of money orders.
At Leesburg John p. Galloway, on Mon
day. sold all his livery stable stock to f. S.
A. Maude and Walter Neve, who have CON
solidated it with the stock of Maudes livery
stable.
DIR. Donald Mcleod, an aged and highly
respected citizen of Lloyds, after long,
lingering illness, died Thursday at the resi-
dence of his son-in-law in Tallahassee, DR..
G. w. Betton.
A Hunt, who has charge of the Apalachi-
cola, Feruandina and Apopka railroad ar
rived in Orlando Tuesday night, and states
that the survey will reach Orlando by the
last of this week
The Citizens National Bank of Orlando
will reopen certainly on Oct. H.. The CAPT
tai stock was paid in Thursday, and the
bank notes were ordered from the Treasury
of the United States
At Orlando Thursday DR.. Lawrence very
successfully performed an amputation of
the leg of n. l.. Mills sand-hill crane or
Florida ostrich. At last accounts the poor
fellow was doing well.
I. M. Lvbass, one of the oldest livery
men in Barlow, has just closed trade with
his partners, Messrs. L. N, Milan and Louis
II. Parker, selling them all his interest in
the livery business in Barlow.
Last Monday was big day at the court
house at Barlow. Nearly $50. 900 worth of
FLORIDA sandn was sold for cash, to the high
est bidder, and most of it will still remain
i'll the hands of Polk county citizens.
Several wildcat scalps were paid for at So
apiece by the commissioners of Alachua
county at their meeting on Tuesday! If
they were more numerous the hunting of
wildcats would be made lucrative bust
ness.
There are rumors afloat of n very serious
difficulty in Orange county, III which an at
tempt was made to use a shotgun The
gun was taken away from the party irving
to use it, who was taken to Orlando aud de-
livered to the Sheriff.
The clerks of the Recorders Office were
engaged yesterday in recording n contract
for the sale of $4,000 acres of land Henry
f. Graham and Lester Hubbell are the
rrI.o anti nd / Cnko
The lands lie in five counties
The Central Committee has called a meet
ing OF tho entire County Democratic Com
mittee, which embraces the Central and
Advisory Committees, to assemble in Mon
ticello on Oct. II, to decide how party nom.
nations shall be made, by primary elections
or the old convention plan.
Prince, a fine Jersey bull, belonging to
Joint stock company, created q sensation
one day last week near l.. d. Balls gate, at
Tallahassee, by deliberately killing one of
Mr.. Balls cows 1t is said that he lifted
her ON his horns, threw her into the air and
killed her almost instantly.
W. b. Hayes, the New York representa-
tive of the Florida Commercial Company,
made a handsome fortune i'm one day this
week by purchasing the zialynsRi property
at Fort Meade. He bid the whole property
in fer SIP 900, when the actual value OF it is
at least $40 900 To $25 900 Valuing it at
the lowest figure will leave a profit of
$4,000.
The people in the vicinity of the Sims
Grove, on Apopka Lake. are in luck, as the
Midland road will build a spur from Ocoee
to Lake Apopka, to be completed before
the orange and vegetable crops are ready
to ship; and this will give standard gauge
cars, so that all shipments will be through
without breaking bulk, and of course cor
responding reduction in freights
The Putnam County Commissioners have
refused 10 call an election for the Prohibi-
tiolistS, there being a shortage of thirty-five
votes Of the requisite number The prohi-
bitionists are not discouraged, and hope to
have the petition complete by the next meet
ing OF the board. There is some doubt
whether the liquor men will be granted a
license, on the grounds Of illegal signatures.